(ThyBlackMan.com) Today, if you ask African Americans if they would like to see black owned businesses enlarge their footprint through employing a significantly large number of workers, the overwhelming majority would say, yes. This is, without a doubt, a shared vision of the African American community. African Americans largely, at ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Many African Americans feel like there has been an unofficial war declared on Blacks, especially young Black males. Just in the past month alone, there have been the police murders of Eric Garner (Staten Island, N.Y.), Ezell Ford (Los Angeles, and Michael Brown (Ferguson, Mo.). Each of these victims ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is only one team sport on this planet we call Earth where two men can ultimately determine a title: basketball.Football: Barry Sanders couldn’t get in done as the best running back in the league. How about baseball: Barry Bonds couldn’t grab the brass (World Series) ring after spending ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As our community seeks to understand the tragedy that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri, this might be a chance to reflect on the life of the black male in America. We all want black men to survive, and most of us are sick of police coming into our neighborhoods, disrespecting ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A series of recent reports cite the drastic lack of economic progress for Black people in general and Black men in particular. Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent, wrote “Black men are no better off than they were more than 40 years ago, due to mass incarceration and job losses ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) New York City’s Department of Education, much like its police department or its fire department, is bedeviled by as much fraud, graft, mismanagement, waste, and even outright criminality as any large municipal bureaucracy anywhere in the world. I would know. Years ago, I was one of those intrepid souls ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) For the last week or so I’ve been following the reports on the riots after the Michael Brown shooting. This is horrible, I cannot imagine his families grief. The response has been phenomenal: I think it is a good thing that the black community is coming together in protest ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I wanted to speak on a matter that has been argued among blacks for generations , and that is the hypocritical argument of ” Unity “. As we know there are those blacks that get in public for the sake of appearance and argue that there should be more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me ask you a serious question. Do you think that God gets angry? I’m not asking you this question rhetorically, I’m asking you actually. How you answer that question reveals the depth of your own relationship with The Lord. Of course God gets angry. The things which anger ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Ladies and gentlemen, something very strange is happening right now in Ferguson, MO. The Constitutional rights of American citizens are being violated. Journalists are deliberately being herded like cattle away from certain people and certain places in Ferguson. Police officers fully dressed in riot gear and shields are openly ...